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Free health screening for 53 million students starts in July

The Indonesian government strives to conduct free health screening (CKG) on some 53 million students, from ...

Govt seals aluminum smelter in Cikarang over air pollution violations

The Ministry of Environment (KLH) has officially sealed an aluminum smelter in Cikarang, West Java, for failing to ...

Malaysian tourist evacuated after fall on Indonesia's Mount Rinjani

A Malaysian tourist was evacuated from Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, after falling while hiking ...

One dead, seven rescued after Sulawesi tugboat incident

One crew member of a tugboat stranded off Tanjung Goram waters of Lantagi Village in Southeast Sulawesi on Friday ...

Community collaboration drives TB elimination efforts in Jakarta

To combat Tuberculosis (TB), one of humanity's oldest diseases, the Indonesian government has introduced ...

Development planning must factor in disaster risk: Indonesian govt

Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture, Pratikno, has emphasized the need for regional ...

Indonesian govt shuts down three steel plants for air pollution

The Indonesian government has sealed three iron and steel factories in Serang, Banten, for contributing to air ...

5,500 Surabayans get HPV self-sampling kits under pilot

The Health Ministry has provided self-sampling kits for HPV DNA screening to at least 5,500 women in Surabaya under a ...

YLKI pushes for acceleration of Smoke Free Zone regulation in Jakarta

The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) has called to speed up the ratification of the Smoke-Free Zone Regional ...

Strengthen implementation of free health screenings: VP

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has called for bolstering the implementation of the Free Health Screening (CKG) ...

BRIN expert highlights rampant child marriage practices in villages

The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN)'s public health and nutritional researcher, Herti Windya ...

Half of Indonesian women have abdominal obesity: ministry

The Health Ministry has reported that 50 percent of women and 25 percent of men in Indonesia have central or abdominal ...

Unified approach paramount to tackling child stunting, anemia

Stunting and anemia remain nutritional challenges that cannot be underestimated in Indonesia, reflecting a gap in ...

Ministry supervises distribution of RI President's sacrificial cattle

The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture informed that it had supervised the distribution and slaughter of sacrificial ...

RI Govt intensifies air pollution supervision in Greater Jakarta

Indonesia's Ministry of Environment is stepping up efforts to prevent and mitigate air pollution in the Greater ...